I’ll give you a few movies I like in my collection. If you have any movie suggestions I’d love to have. They can be on topic, or just movies you really like and want to share.
Night Mother – I watched this one last night. Really liked it. It’s based off of the Kurt Vonnegut book of the same name.
JFK Revisited Through the Looking Glass – It’s an Oliver Stone work. I recommend anything by him.
El Salvador – Oliver Stone, dramatic telling of the war in El Salvador. An absolute must see.
The Young Karl Marx – A great film by a great director, Raoul Peck.
Snowden – More Oliver Stone, a decent dramatization of the affair.
Baader Meinof Complex – This one is about certain events in West Germany.
Come and See – Famous Russian movie about the war.
Priest (1994) – Film by Antonia Bird. It’s a touchy movie so probably look into why it’s touchy if you have problems watching certain material. She’s an excellent director. She also did Ravenous (1999) which is a fun sort of genre bending movie. This movie isn’t really on topic but it’s a great movie. Why I’m including it is because of it’s strong working class aesthetic. I think that it’s topic matter of religion and abuse are done in a class conscious way. I think Antonia Bird adds a lot of value through her works, and she’s a director you should be familiar with.
Heaven and Earth (1993) – Another Oliver Stone movie. It’s about the Vietnam War. Probably better than Platoon in some ways. It’s about a Vietnamese woman living through the war. She meets and American man and moves to America where’s she treated as less than and other. It goes into his crimes against humanity. The war expresses itself through their dynamic. Platoon is the movie Oliver Stone is known for. It’s a great movie. You should watch it if you haven’t. Heaven and Earth isn’t that well known, but it’s the better movie in my opinion. His power as a director really hits hard in this one and in El Salvador.
Ukraine on Fire. – Oliver fucking Stone… It’s on Rumble. You don’t even have to torrent it.
United States of Insanity – It’s a movie about the Insane Clown Posse and the FBI’s targeted harassment of their fan base. I think this movie is more than it let’s on. Their fan base is extremely proletarian. Their solidarity as a group is essentially tied to their shared proletarian nature. Their solidarity represents a kind of organic class solidarity. They were attacked and demonized because of that class quality. I think this is incredibly important to understand and appreciate.
These are all great movies you would do well to watch. If you have a PC and believe in the open availability of information, I feel these are the kinds of movies that deserve to be preserved and made available.
Maybe we could make a community for movies. :)
That’s a great idea. Maybe someone with moderation experience can help us out.
Thank you comrade o7
For sure. I hope you enjoy them if you watch any of them.
Come and See is an incredible film.
I didn’t know Oliver Stone made a movie about El Salvador; I’ll have to check it out. I’m skeptical to how it holds up.
I think the civil war in el salvador, us involvement, the assassination of Archbishop Romeo, el mozote massacre, as well as the salvadroan diaspora and the rise of MS13 all deserve a proper film or even series treatment.
When I saw this thread title I thought it would be less political lol…I’m a big coen brothers fan. Also Scorsese up until anything after Casino. Many other films/directors, as well.
For things more related to this forum, here’s a quick list
Battle of Algiers
There’s a film called Lepa Sela Lepa Gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) about the breakup and war in the former yugoslavia
Hunger a film about bobby sands and the hunger strikes
The Wind that Shake the Barley: about the revolution and start of the civil war in Ireland
I’m actually a fan of early Michael Moore films myself…I’ll take whatever flak comes my way for that.
Now I’m out of ideas lol; going to have to rack my brain for more; I’m all over the place right now
I thought Michael More’s last film about the green movement was an excellent piece on the futility of liberalism. When people were talking about it, a lot of flack was coming from angry liberals, the sort that believe in capitalist messiahs. Of course the whole thing is a scam. Any socialist should have been able to see that. It got a lot of flack because liberals can’t face their own futility and hypocrisy. Same reason they flame up anytime the progressive wing of the Democrats is criticized for their own futility and hypocrisy.
The El Salvador film holds up. Everything you mention is covered about as well as you can expect except the rise of MS13. It isn’t even heavy handed about it. It’s a great film even without considering the material relevance.
All of the movies you recommended I haven’t heard of, so I’m excited to check them out.
These films were already mentioned here but “The Battle of Algiers” and “The Wind that Shake the Barley” are really excellent films in depicting the revolutionary heroes that fought to liberate Algeria and Ireland respectively. Ken Loach (director of the latter) in general makes lots of films about the working class, so his work is definitely relevant.
If you are a fan of French New Wave, I can recommend “Far from Vietnam”, which is an anti-war documentary about the AmeriKKKan atrocities in Vietnam by Godard, Varda, Truffaut, etc. “La Chinoise” by Godard is also a very fun and relatively short watch about Maoist students that are a bit too keen on theory.
Maybe not too relevant to communism but I really enjoy the films of Zhang Yimou. Some of his works can be slightly over-exaggerating the Cultural Revolution, but the story-telling is sound nonetheless, especially in “To Live”.
“Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” is one of the few Soviet films I have seen (really need to catch up here!), but it is a really down to earth romantic film, compared to Western counterparts. You can find this from Mosfilm’s YT channel.
